Our Priesthood - we are called to rise up with our new Bishop, state of priesthood in Ireland, evolving role of the priest; settlement with Inland Revenue, we should all pay our taxes, all expenditure requires a receipt, "I could seldom be content in what we were and always longed for shared vision of what we should be. I don't think we have done too badly"
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Repentance more than just "sorry"; Laetare Sunday - a day of grace and joy; return of the Prodigal; better as "The Parable of the Profligate Father"?;
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Evil seems to be triumphing; we can outface all the evil and wickeness; the cross is our salvation; "Do not be Afraid"; greed and unemployment; turn to hope and trust in Him
1994 - our difficulties, bitterness of our own community; Cardinal's Exit from Synod - words of St Benedict, Vincent Nichols words from Synod (insert); The 'Anglican' Brethren - received into full communion; Retirement - preparations increasing; Charisms - notable development of charisms in the religious, formidable team of parish sister, deacon and priest, pray deeply for our casualties
Inserted page: "From the Synod of Bishops 1994" - [by Vincent Nichols dated 11 December 1994], Synod is non-stop work, two-thirds of synod are in consecrated life, a church without consecrated life is incomplete, evangelical vows in different settings, month long meeting is an awesome prospect
EA 1994 - the disciplining of our own, a need for wisdom, ingenuity and vision; You? - ; "Hurting" - would not say "he is hurting with Christ", need to re-order the geography of our parishes, response from the laity is overwhelming; Me - I have had to drive you hard, you have been kind to me; Death; Present Difficulties - new priests come next year, refer matters of serious child abuse to Philip Shryane; Postlude, St Nicholas Day - death of Fr Charles Howarth SM in a road accident, pray for Fr Tony Seely who slipped and tore a ligament
Inserted page: "Strictly Confidential to the Priests of East Anglia" - provision to cover legal fees for good lawyers and Accountants
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Mission fields are here, at home; New Cathechism being published; 600 pages for the breadth of the Church's teaching; aimed at Bishops but priests should incorporate it into their teaching; guide to the Catholic faith
The Lenten Letter - from the Holy Father, fear that events may impose a yet mopre rigorous call to fidelity; This Lent 1994 - not so an"awful" Lent as some think, concious of distress and pain of living true to our vocation; 14th May 1994 - 50th anniversary for the Diocese, 50 years of priesthood; Our Priests - Harry Wace, Peter Cansdale, ordinations at OLEM Cambridge, currently no candidates for the priesthood; Maundy Thursday Letter - Eucharist is the heart of the priestly life
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Gaudete Sunday; our preparation for Christmas; facing up to our failings; taking heart
"Catholic Anglicans" - increasing number of requests from anglicans, an answer to the prayers for church unity, anglican ministry in rural parishes ; Anglican Gifts - deeper and richer gifts of sprirtuality; Collaborative MInistry - leadership of the priest is more necessary than eve, await Paul Hypher's thesis at LSU on "collaborative ministry"!; The Church's Preoccupations - real and prayerful place in the church, understandings become deeper with the reducing rarity of female priests in the Church of England; Celibacy [3 sides discussion]- intimitacy not just genital but close companionship - [extensive quotes from The Catholic Times article by Rev Chris Brooks, priest and psychotherapist]; Diocesan News - Franciscans leaving Ipswich, new priests soon, retirements, appointments, purchase of the Convent of Notre Dame, Sisters departing, Latin America service, his own 25th episcopal anniversary
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)The Great Triduum; Walsingham and Easter TV Mass, parish participation in Diocesan Pilgrimage; The Permanent Deacon - guidance of Mgr J Drury and Mgr Tony Philpot, 3 year training programme being established; The Place of Women in the Church - promotion of women in the life of the Diocese and parishes, woman priests a last straw for our anglican brothers; Anglican Reconciliation - not easy for either side; New Financial Responsibilities; We, the Priests - brutal attack on Fr Michael Clothier in Beccles, Paul Hypher ordination in 1994, Mgr Michael Cassidu as Emeritus Chancellor; The Diocesan 'Team' - next Bishop will be reassured by the 'service to the Diocese'; More? - Bill Mason to be ordained as our second former anglican priest
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reflections at the half-way point in Lent; getting spirit of lent right; deciding to be with Him; review of Lenten resolutions; prayer, fasting, almsgiving - the Lenten trio
1992; The Ageing Process - retirement; The Hugging Diocese; Ars December '92 - retreat organised by Tony Philpot; Tomorrow - what are we returning to; Women's Ordination - Church of England decision, enlargement of the ministry of women within its own specific and necessary role in the community; The New Situation consider the way ahead for the Anglican clergy who are ill at ease; Visitation - value of this programme; Death and Retirement - Frs. Hacon, Lynch, Houghton, Brophy, Howlin, Diamond, Bustin; Diocesan Development - developments in remote areas of the diocese, enormous expenditure in schools
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Xmas Cards; Hugs - megahug; The Synod - significant in 1994, the religious life; Ordination - woman's ordination does disturb and unsettle, quote from Fr John McDade SJ in the December issue of the Month; The New Situation - best way ahead for anglican clergy; taking Moro (the dog) for a walk, robins, wrens, canadian geese
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Anniversary of the death of Fr Michael Kennedy in 1973; Holy Week; Diocesan up-date - ready to update the astoral Plan; The DPC - not fully owned by you; The Diocesan Agenda -role of all its members; Parish Pastoral Council In-put - baseline is drawn at the Parish level, this is not a speciaous form of democratic-synodal goverment, to discover what is on the minds of those in the apostolate; The Aims of the DPC - deliberation on the parish and deanery pastoral councils; Black List - proscribed hymns, Liturgy Now? - convinced that the Blessed Sacrament remains in the Sanctuary; Evangelisation
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"on the night he was betrayed" - introducing the Gospel narrative for the Eucharist; hard to pray over the noise of daily news - the political electioneering makes it impossible to think clearly about things that matter; be brave to confront ourselves;
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being nimble; the church's homeland is the Mass; quote from Mgr. Tony Philpot; GK Chesterton - the danger of seeing something familiar as if for the first time again; evangelising in a "homely" way
Unseasonal Weater! - Moro (the dog); Weekend Episcopal Travel-Log - visitatiosn to the 58 parishes, being togther - Bishop, priests religious and people; Advent Eucharist - dream that at the end of this century the Diocease of East Anglia will be a truly eucharistic community, extract from Archbishop of Southwark, "Most people know you for what you do, but your true greatness comes from what your are"; Visitation - to Peterborough, confirmation, [missing] list of hymns to be consigned to oblivion!
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Possibilities - for 1992; Alright so far - after 15 years, a rolling car story; The Scene across the Country - alarming decrease in Catholic numbers; The Decade - wide range of activities and areas, unable to define the work of a Commission for Evangelisation ; The Practice - a liturgy to celebrate, revealed mysteries of faith, "all for concilitarity and firmly adhere to it - but I am leary of any synodal structure"; Programme of Evangelisation - "junk" served up in so many churches, a list of some hymns to be consigned to the outer darkness, "admit there is a danger of riding a hobby horse to death"; ARCIC Response - "a great opportunity was lost...", incolvement of all Chruistian Churches is demanded; Finance - Hadrian Mule, Diocesan finances never easy to grasp at one sitting, have not enough money to do everything so budgetting and prioritising is fundamental; DDF [Diocesan Development Fund] - decisions to be taken; Offerings - frequently too low, successes in the Shrine complex and finanacing of the rebuilding of the Cathedral
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war and rumours of war; expectations of year 2000; evangelisation - a decade of work
Profession -Little Sister Katrina; Today support in the Decade of Evangelisation; A Light in the greyness - Julian of Norwich (extract), vocations; The Loneliness of the World - experienced by all, to be alleviated by the community; Return from Australia: Sisters' Day 1991 - Joint Working Group, asked by Rome to continue in it, ordination of women discussion, so substantial change woudl require moral unanimity
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